Bright lighting conditions during testing increase thigmotaxis and impair water maze performance in BALB/c mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-31

  Huang, Yan ^a   Zhou, Wenxia ^a   Zhang, Yongxiang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Light condition; Morris water maze task; Thigmotaxis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; ILLUMINATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIGMOTAXIS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; LIGHTING; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SWIMMING;

EID: 80053172003     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.043     Document Type: Article

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